Play3-Live Previews The Getaway 3: Impressions Included

French site Play3-Live.com had the opportunity to move over to England for a special occasion following an invitation by SCEE London Studio.This morning we invite you to read their preview & impression's of the game.Here are some brief thoughts as follows:

-Immediately, the quality of the graphics in(The Getaway 3)is superb 'dazzling' The enviromets are superb, but it's mostly the effects of lights that leave us open-mouthed!

-The Cars (still under license) are superbly modeled, a bit lesser than those of Gran Turismo, but just about the level comparable to a Colin McRae DiRT Racing car model.

-A slight blur effect has been added to give an impression of greater speed which clearly fits well during driving!

-Car damage has been improved and we would often compared it (The Getaway 3 )to Codemasters Rally simulation.

-The Getaway 3 will have no online modes, because according to the development team, it has no place in a game of this sort.

-About 40 hours of gameplay in total, not counting side missions and special vehicles to locate in the various large cities or towns, as the scenario of The Getaway is taking place in London but also in Amsterdam.

-Other information include, the team expects to link up the 3 games story wise (The Getaway, The Getaway Black Monday and Gangs of London) since the adventure takes place a few years before the first Game.

-Over 3 years in development have been necessary for such graphics rendering.The game has been in development since late 2004 & beginning of 2005.

-The music will be more varied than before.The game will also be more mature than it's predecessors, and 18 + will be recommended.

-There will be (for each playable character) his small home where you can store weapons, cars, and bank notes in a small trunk. No planes or helicopters are playable, but boats yes! The game is taking place (around the end of the story) in the winter, snow! Also, if you are caught, it will be Game Over, and it will resume from the last checkpoint.

-Finally, your atrocities will be identified(taken into notice) and if you are too violent, you will see your face on posters or TV (WANTED).In other words, must refine your crimes and avoid leaving traces.

So much for the "essentials" information on the too discreet game(The Getaway 3), which should be available by December.we were impressed by the hands on presentation and suggest that this series of Sony may well be greater than GTA IV in terms of graphics rendering and technology, especially as the characters are supremely modeled with real time climate conditions change.

See you soon for images and videos. Many thanks to Sony for that nice presentation.

Please note:I left out impressions of the storyline which takes place just after the E3 2006 trailer.Follow link to read more on that

See you soon for images and videos. Many thanks to Sony for that nice introduction.

Read the article, which I take with a grain of salt myself,and advise everyone to follow suit since it's 1st of April , It's from a reliable and well respected site hence it's degree of authenticity.

Update:

This article has been confirm fake (April Fools ).Apologies from play3-live Team http://www.play3-live.com/news-ps3-poisson-d-avril-7464.html

So take away time and resources from making an excellent single player game to make an average single player game, with an average online game? Yeah sounds like a real winner in my eyes. How does a average game with both sp/mp become a better buy than a excellent single player game?

completley agree with sRuN4 no single player game should be under done for the sake off multiplayer. i still see multiplayer as an add on in most cases unless the game is geared towards multiplayer, but uncharted, the getaway and such games dont need it, multiplayer would add nothing to these types of games.

look at sales. Bioshock, mass effect all great games but fell to lack of online. I personally don't even try online on a lot of games after i am done with SP. But there are ppl who make great online and great sp. I expect Getaway to come away with online especially now this has been confirmed as fake

well doesn't sound too bad. Actually sounds pretty good. No online may be a mistake though after ppl see gta4 but since they aren't going to be in direct competition considering the time between both releases, maybe getaway may have a spot on my shelf

launches at about the time that GTA4 DLC content will hit XBL. If eigjht Days (protector or whatever) is also released around then, it's rather apparent why Sony doesn't care about the extra GTA4 content. It looks like they're hoping new games will pull a larger number of users then the DLC will.

no one is comparing getaway with GTA4. Personally i havn't played any of the games i never fell for the hype. However maybe team soho has finally gotten their game together. I like pretty graphics just as much as the next guy but if the game isn't fun then that is just too bad. Considering GTA4 and The getaway are the same type of game, it will show what a standard hard drive and blu ray can do for an open world game. That is pretty much all i am waiting to see.

Read the article, which I take with a grain of salt myself,and advise everyone to follow suit since it`s 1st of April , It`s from a reliable and well respected site hence it`s degree of authenticity.i`ll be pissed if proven fake

Thanks for the additional translation, the actual site translation was practically unreadable! I think this info sounds accurate as it meshes with other odds & bits we've heard about this game. Also, not so certain that 1 April is April Fool's in France. Don't recall it being so when I lived in Italy so I'm not sure...

Edit: Did some research (not that anyone would really care) and it appears that France might actually be where April Fool's day started. Go figure...

Yeah it's one thing to do an april fool's joke about colonising mars (google lol), but a joke that is just "oh we have new information on a highly anticipated game..... ha! we don't really! april fool!!" isn't really funny at all, especially since we know that this game IS still in development. Of course this could be a real preview in which case, it's looking good.

well online would have been nice and could be one of those features that get added later ala tekken dark resurrection. plus since HOME is coming out and this game is made by sony i do expect some trophies and some deep home support as well, now come to think of it games like uncharted would have been even better have they had an online mode,

just think of ducking and shooting one another in one of those lust tropical uncharted maps, now that would be cool and if you run out of ammo just go up to one another and punch each others lights out.

'Immediately, the quality of the graphics in(The Getaway 3)is superb 'dazzling' The enviromets are superb, but it`s mostly the effects of lights that leave us open-mouthed!' ;-P ONLY ON PS3;) 'OH! NO!' shout the xBot Lemmings!!! as they fall off the Cliff!!! ;-D

I'm sick and tired of every game getting online multiplayer when some don't even need it. I still can't imagine playing Team Deathmatch on Final Fantasy, or CTF in God of War. You get the drift. Though leaderboards are cool, now that I've seen Devil May Cry 4 pull it off properly. Hopefully they've got an awesome combat system, and an easy way to do the dozens of actions necessary in covering up evidence.

Its a more story driven game with excellent graphics that even pushed the PS2 at the time. It was shorter than GTA but it wasn't really the type of game GTA was. It had a big world, but the point wasn't to do side missions etc. The game just took place in a big world. This one will probably be a ton bigger thanks to bluray.

Its like playing Snatch/Lock Stock two Smoking barrels.

If they add a multiplayer element I want it to be innovative. Not just TDM/DM/CTF/Zones in yet another game engine. Which is no different than any other game that has it.

Lets hope they concentrate on the single player 100%, I'm sure most of us will get your Multiplayer fix from all of the other multiplats like GTAIV.

But if this game is as beautiful as We've seen with less Anti Aliasing, it will be like Uncharted. To where single player really is the best way to just walk around and admire what the Devs have done for the game. Or like Bioshock.

i love guy richies films so to me the getaway was better than gta games plus driving around roads i know was a big bonus.the narrative and script of the original getaway was and is still to this date one of the best in a computer game. hopefully this follows suit.

The Getaway 1 did have a great story but the on foot controls were absolutely TERRIBLE. I gave up on it after the 7th or 8th mission. When I buy a game even if I think it's not that good I always at least complete the single player mode to see how it ends. The Getaway 1 was one of only a handful a games that I've ever played that not just frustrated me but downright disgusted me with how terrible the controls were. Also, isn't the guy that came up with the story for The Getaway 1 not working for Sony anymore? I heard he's working on L.A. Noir for Rockstar. If they have the same people that were responsible for the controls for The Getaway 1 working on The Getaway 3 then it will definitly suck. Just look at Gangs Of London. Good premise but friggin unplayable. Sony needs to give this franchise to a better development team like Eidos did w/ Crystal Dynamics for the Tomb Raider franchise.

as its april 1st hope this aint a joke but.. as for the getaway ive played all previous and really enjoyed them they actually mapped out london exactley like it, you could travel all round the real locations. they had a free roaming bit in it and you needed a real a-z of london.

I'm excited about playing GTA and the Getaway 3 seems to me developers are making more free roaming open-world sand box titles, Infamous, Crackdown, and no more heroes are just some names. Honestly games like GTA and the Getaway in my opinion don't need online play, I enjoy them because of the single player experience.

I'm sorry but that keep saying that this game will be better if it has online is just silly the first and 2nd never had online and they were great games this game is meant to be a singel player game. Not an online game. It's a story driven game and thats what makes it great i can't wait to be able to walk around the west end like i'm on my way to charing cross station in this game its gonna be great.